Golding Island (sometimes seen spelt as "Goulding Island") is one of the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouzet ...

, just to the north of

West Falkland West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastli ...

Keppel Sound Keppel Sound ( Spanish: ''Bahia de la Cruzada' is a bay to the north of West Falkland in the Falkland Islands. Islands in/bordering the sound include Golding Island Golding Island (sometimes seen spelt as "Goulding Island") is one of the Falkl ...

and near Keppel and

Pebble Island Pebble Island is one of the Falkland Islands, situated north of West Falkland West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by th ...

s. It has a complex shape, with narrow headlands and bays, and a pond in the middle. Golding Island is a sheep farm, and was previously farmed together with

and

Keppel Island Keppel Island ( es, Isla de la Vigia) is one of the Falkland Islands, lying between Saunders and Pebble islands, and near Golding Island to the north of West Falkland on Keppel Sound. It has an area of and its highest point, Mt. Keppel, is hi ...

by the Dean Brothers. The settlement is in the south east, near Hummock Point. After a raid on

San Carlos Water San Carlos Water is a bay/fjord on the west coast of East Falkland, facing onto the Falkland Sound. Name Despite its Spanish-sounding name, there is a wide discrepancy with the Spanish usage, for in Spanish "Estrecho de San Carlos" refers to ...

during the

Falklands War The Falklands War ( es, link=no, Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial de ...

, Capitan Garcia, an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

airman, ejected from his aircraft, an Argentine

A-4C Skyhawk The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a single-seat subsonic carrier-capable light attack aircraft developed for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s. The delta-winged, single turbojet engined Skyhawk was designed a ...

. At the time, his body was not recovered, but was washed ashore in a dinghy in 1983. The island was also bombed during the War by the Argentines who thought that they picked up a radio transmission from here.

References

External links

* * https://web.archive.org/web/20070701060310/http://www.mainpointfarm.co.uk/falklandislands/islands.htm Islands of the Falkland Islands {{Falklands-geo-stub